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Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
> Then discovered that we need a password for jim, not 
> just the Enter key, and used adduser to fix this up 

If all you want to change is the password, the passwd
command does that.

> Can we forget shadow.tgz and simply hand-edit /etc/passwd 
> to add users and  change their passwords?

Yes (that's the method I used to recommend in the past).
The only problem with that is the only password you can
set is the null password (anything else needs an encryption
routine).
 
> /bin/bash - is this the default shell?

Yes.

> Now it seems we need to set some permissions in order to 
> use the account.

If you manually create a george account, you will need to give 
ownership of the /home/george directory to george:
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chown -R george /home/george
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Cheers,
Steven